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| What the Best Dac have you heard or owned. How could you tell it was that good. At this time I own a Berkeley Alpha Reference 2 MQA, Tubadour IV, Black Ice Glass FX Tube DAC, and a Marantz KI Ruby SACD player. Prior to that I have owned a PSA PerfectWave MK II, and a Resolution Audio Quantum. I'm afraid that this won't be a ... | |
| eBay The OP's point about eBay being unethical in the way they charge their fees is understandable but I look at it a little differently. 1) The fee structure is transparent; it is in their user agreement, 2) As pointed out above it circumvents any gam... | |
| Upgrades and repairs on hi fi components In the PNW there is a great shop in Gig Harbor (near Tacoma) that repairs high end components. called Gig Harbor Audio . I've had them repair and recap several Krell components and they do an excellent job. | |
| Digital newbie +1 for @dwest1023 's Idea for starting with a laptop. You are familiar with the interface and you can get a good idea of how things work before you drop a bunch of money. I'm using my ASUS ROG laptop for streaming and I've compared the sound of Qo... | |
| if you had this system, what would you do to make it sound the best you can I suggest taking some of your upgrade budget and attend an audio show. AXPONA is coming up but there are shows all over the country now. There is no better way to get an idea of how your system stacks up against what is currently available. I cou... | |
| Turntable prices. Is my mind going? Indignation about expensive luxury products that we can't afford is completely relative. You have contempt for someone who would pay $300,000 for a turntable. Imagine how a subsistance farmer in many parts of the third world would feel about the a... | |
| Cd player I have a Teac 701 and a Jay's Audio CD3 Mk III. They both sound great. I'm not sure I could tell them apart in a blind test but they are both excellent pieces of gear. The Jay's is built like a tank and it uses the latest drive mechaism that Phil... | |
| Digital with same soundstage as analog I can share my experience which is quite different than yours. I happen to have the same cartridge (Hana SL) on a Denon DP 47f turntable. For digital I'm running a Jay's Audio CD3 Mk III transport with a Berkeley Alpha Reference Series 2 MQA DAC a... | |
| A.I. music @falconquest I stand by my opinion that there has never been anything truly original in music composition. Going back to the great classical composers, they often used folk melodies in their compositions and they built upon religious music that wa... | |
| A.I. music I just finished a very interesting book on A.I. by Mustafa Suleyman titled "The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilema. I highly recommend it if you are interested in this subject. I guarantee that it will sharpen y... | |
| Not enough outlets Just a note about hospital grade outlets. At AXPONA several years ago I met Caelin Gabriel from Shunyata and we had an interesting discussion about various power issues. The subject of outlets came up and he told me that it is not a good idea to u... | |
| You tube hifi influencers. Love them or hate them? I have found YouTube videos quite valuable when I am considering buying a new piece of gear. One of these days I'm going to buy a dedicated streamer (I currently use a laptop) and I've watched videos on several different models. A video is an exce... | |
| Better cd SQ I've owned quite a few DACS and CD players over the years and I now have a state of the art setup (Jay's CD3 Mk III, Berkeley Alpha Reference Series II MQA DAC). My system sounds better than it ever has but the addition of a single digital compone... | |
| Why do some amplifiers throw a bigger soundstage than others? I have one more theory. Amps differ in their ability to provide current into low impedance and phase shifted loads. The type of amp (class A for example) doesn't tell you how well it provides current. If the speakers in question have an impedance ... | |
| It's your streamer, not your modem I'm doing eveything wrong. I stream through my Asus ROG laptop computer which is connected to my network through wifi. I hook up the laptop to my Berkeley Alpha USB/Alpha Reference DAC Series 2 MQA, via cheap USB cable. When I play a Qobuz file a... |